Convergence Guidebook for Corporate Financial Reporting

Description

As a result of the global convergence of financial reporting standards, U.S. GAAP is changing profoundly. U.S. GAAP is also being abandoned by many public and private companies, and will eventually be replaced by a higher-quality set of global standards. The Convergence Guidebook for Corporate Financial Reporting provides the timely, practical guidance that CFOs, controllers, and other financial managers need in order to prepare for the impact of Convergence on their companies, departments, and careers. Guidebook readers will also learn why they must begin preparing for "the next big challenge in corporate financial reporting" now.

About the Author

Bruce Pounder, MBA, CMA, CFM, DipIFR (ACCA), is an expert on the global Convergence of financial reporting standards. He has two decades of firsthand financial reporting experience as the CFO of a privately held corporation and has served as a financial reporting consultant to many public corporations. Currently he is the President of the professional services firm Leveraged Logic and the host of the webcast series "This Week in Accounting."

"This guidebook for chief financial officers, vice presidents of finance, controllers, and managers of financial reporting and accounting explains apects related to the global convergence of financial reporting standards, including why the US generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) have changed as a result, how to prepare for its challenges, how it will affect financial reporting and US labor markets for financial reporting talent, and how it will impact decision making." (Book News, August 2009)

"As he explains in his book, the Convergence Guidebook for Corporate Financial Reporting, both US GAAP and IFRS will change profoundly as the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board continue to converge the two sets of standards." (jobsinthemoney.com, May 2009)